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Bloomberg supplies business show to LBC
Chrysalis-owned LBC News has struck a deal with Bloomberg to air a 90-minute early morning money programme, Bloomberg Business Breakfast. The show, which launched this week, airs from 05.00 to 06.30, Monday to Friday, and goes head to head with Five Live's ...
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ITV secures F1 motor racing until 2010
ITV has secured a five-year deal, believed to be worth£150m, to cover Formula 1 motor racing exclusively in the UK - keeping the sport on the channel until 2010. The deal also includes a clause which allows the broadcaster to show coverage of races on sister channels ITV2 and the ...
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GMG radio improves performance
Guardian Media Group's radio division, the owner of Jazz FM, has reported a 61% revenue growth, taking revenues up to£21m for the year ending 31 March, up from£13m for the previous 12 months. A trading statement released by the group said national airtime revenue was up 86% over the year ...
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ITV Yorkshire boss given broader role
ITV Yorkshire controller of programmes Clare Morrow has been given an additional role co-ordinating the activities of all the regional controllers in the north and midlands. Morrow will take on the title of controller of regional programmes, north and report to ITV News Group director of regional production Ian Squires. ...
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Clear Channel set for push in Europe
US radio giant Clear Channel Entertainment (CCE) is making a push into European television with plans to create original music programmes and formats to sell to broadcasters, writes Naomi Rovnick.
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Norton opens NY office for Comedy Central show
So Television, the indie owned by comedian Graham Norton, has set up a US office in preparation for the launch of Norton's new show on Comedy Central, writes Colin Robertson.
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MTV unveils three series
MTV UK has launched three new home-grown series which it plans to network across its 45 channels in 166 countries, writes Naomi Rovnick.
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Five keeps capital FM's party in the park
Five has secured the exclusive rights to show 95.8 Capital FM's music concert, Party in the Park, for a further two years. However, Endemol-owned Initial, which has produced the show for the past three years, has lost the contract to indie Done and Dusted. The show, which features Will Young, ...
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ITV sales arm reaches out to poland
ITV programme sales arm Granada International has agreed a deal to supply a package of TV movies to TV Polska Channel 1. The Polish broadcaster has taken seven movies including Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, Hollywood Wives and Maiden Voyage: Ocean Hijack.
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titeuf becomes tootuff for gmtv
GMTV has snapped up French animation series Titeuf from distributor Moonscoop, buying all 78 episodes of the seven-minute programme. It will be rebranded Tootuff and broadcast in GMTV's weekend morning schedule from early next year. It is produced by France Animation with co-production partners Editions Glenat, Canal J, France 3 ...
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fat-busting format finds favour in oz
Celador International has signed the first international licence for its new format You Are What You Eat. Nine Network in Australia has taken an option to buy the UK version - currently in production for Channel 4 - and to make its own version, which follows a group of overweight ...
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Performance to air eastwood interview
The Performance Channel general manager Bob Lynton has bought another two years' worth of Inside the Actors' Studio.The deal is for 50 new episodes, which include interviews with Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood. Lynton originally commissioned 26 x 60-minute episodes in 2001, featuring in-depth interviews with actors such as Gwyneth ...
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Ant and Dec's takeaway sold to Belgians
ITV's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is to be made for Belgium. Granada International has agreed a licence deal with TeVe Company, which will make a version of the show for VTM Belgium. VTM will keep the same format as the British version but the Geordie duo will be ...
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ITV fields Parky against football
ITV stunned the BBC this week by recruiting veteran chat show host Michael Parkinson to join its Saturday night line-up.
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New Freeview channel
Shopping channel Ideal World, which broadcasts on Sky and NTL digital, has launched on Freeview. Channel 22 is part of the Crown Castle multiplex, but is not the last available slot on Freeview. Meanwhile, the Digital Interactive Television Group is in talks with Telewest to launch its Avego gaming channel ...
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4 Ventures adds Hoegh
Channel 4's commercial arm, 4 Ventures has appointed Thomas Hoegh to its board as a non-executive director. His appointment coincides with that of C4 chairman Luke Johnson, who also becomes a non-executive director. Hoegh is currently chief executive officer of Arts Alliance, an international venture capital company, which has backed ...
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Help for TV hopefuls
The Edinburgh Television Festival is calling for applications from young television professionals to take part in this year's fast-track scheme. The initiative will see 40 people aged between 22 and 29 with two to four years' experience take part in a series of masterclasses including a live pitch to BBC ...
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Digital needs a deadline
The BBC's call this week for the government to put more meat on the bones of its digital strategy is no surprise.
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Comcast bails out on Disney deal
US cable giant Comcast has withdrawn its $54.1bn (£30.2bn) unsolicited bid for Walt Disney, citing a lack of interest in the bid from Disney. 'It has become clear that there is no interest on the part of Disney's management and board in putting Comcast and Disney together,' said Comcast president ...
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Lewis to oversee ITV digital channels
ITV has promoted general manager of digital channels Jonathan Lewis to be its new controller of digital channels, overseeing the commercial aspects of all of the broadcaster's digital channels. He will also oversee ITV's interests in third party channels such as Men and Motors and Plus as well as MUTV. ...